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CBS News
21 hours ago
- Politics
- CBS News
Judge denies R. Kelly's request to be placed on home detention, amid claims of prison murder plot
A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday denied singer R. Kelly's bid to be released to home detention, ruling that she does not have the jurisdiction to rule on his attorneys' claims that federal authorities are plotting to kill him in prison. Earlier this month, Kelly's attorneys filed an emergency motion seeking his immediate release to home detention, claiming his life is in danger as he serves a 30-year prison sentence for various sex crimes. The motion claims Kelly's former cellmate at the federal lockup in Chicago conspired with prison officials to steal mail between him and his attorneys, and turn it over to prosecutors before his trial on child pornography charges, in order to pit Kelly's former girlfriend against him. Kelly's attorneys also claimed prison officials recruited a fellow prison inmate, who is a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, to kill Kelly in prison in North Carolina to prevent him from exposing the plot to steal his mail and turn witnesses against him. In addition to their motion asking a judge to place him on home confinement, Kelly's attorneys also made a public plea to President Trump to set him free. The federal judge now overseeing Kelly's criminal case in Chicago originally set a hearing for Friday, but on Thursday denied his motion, finding she does not have jurisdiciton to rule on his claims that the feds are plotting to kill him. U.S. District Judge Martha Pacold noted that, since he has already been convicted and sentenced, she has limited jurisdiciton over his case, essentially only if he is challenging his conviction or sentence. "Kelly is currently housed at FCI Butner, which is located in Butner, North Carolina—outside this judicial district," Pacold wrote. "Kelly has not demonstrated a legal basis for this court's jurisdiction. Accordingly, his emergency motion … is denied." In their formal response to Kelly's motion in court, federal prosecutors have called Kelly's claims of a plot to kill him "repugnant to the sentence that this court imposed for deply disturbing offenses." "Kelly refuses to accept responsibility for years of sexually abusing children and is using this Court's docket merely to promote himself despite there being no legal basis to be before this Court," prosecutors wrote earlier this week. Kelly's attorneys also have claimed that, since making his original emergency motion for release, he was given a life-threatening overdose of his medication by prison officials, and later removed from a hospital against his doctors' advice. Kelly, 58, was convicted in 2022 in Chicago of child pornography charges, accused of making videos of himself sexually abusing three teenage girls, including his 14-year-old goddaughter. Meantime, a federal jury in New York convicted Kelly of racketeering and sex trafficking charges in 2021, finding him guilty of running a criminal enterprise to sexually exploit young women and children. Federal appeals courts have upheld both convictions. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison in the New York case, and most of his 20-year sentence in the Chicago case is running concurrently to that prison term. The singer is serving his prison sentence at a medium-security federal correctional center in Butner, North Carolina, and is expected to be released on Dec. 21, 2045, when he would be nearly 79 years old.
CBS News
21 hours ago
- Politics
- CBS News
Judge denies R. Kelly's request to be placed on home detention, citing lack of jurisdiction
A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday denied singer R. Kelly's bid to be released to home detention, ruling that she does not have the jurisdiction to rule on his attorneys' claims that federal authorities are plotting to kill him in prison. Earlier this month, Kelly's attorneys filed an emergency motion seeking his immediate release to home detention, claiming his life is in danger as he serves a 30-year prison sentence for various sex crimes. The motion claims Kelly's former cellmate at the federal lockup in Chicago conspired with prison officials to steal mail between him and his attorneys, and turn it over to prosecutors before his trial on child pornography charges, in order to pit Kelly's former girlfriend against him. Kelly's attorneys also claimed prison officials recruited a fellow prison inmate, who is a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, to kill Kelly in prison in North Carolina to prevent him from exposing the plot to steal his mail and turn witnesses against him. In addition to their motion asking a judge to place him on home confinement, Kelly's attorneys also made a public plea to President Trump to set him free. The federal judge now overseeing Kelly's criminal case in Chicago originally set a hearing for Friday, but on Thursday denied his motion, finding she does not have jurisdiciton to rule on his claims that the feds are plotting to kill him. U.S. District Judge Martha Pacold noted that, since he has already been convicted and sentenced, she has limited jurisdiciton over his case, essentially only if he is challenging his conviction or sentence. "Kelly is currently housed at FCI Butner, which is located in Butner, North Carolina—outside this judicial district," Pacold wrote. "Kelly has not demonstrated a legal basis for this court's jurisdiction. Accordingly, his emergency motion … is denied." In their formal response to Kelly's motion in court, federal prosecutors have called Kelly's claims of a plot to kill him "repugnant to the sentence that this court imposed for deply disturbing offenses." "Kelly refuses to accept responsibility for years of sexually abusing children and is using this Court's docket merely to promote himself despite there being no legal basis to be before this Court," prosecutors wrote earlier this week. Kelly's attorneys also have claimed that, since making his original emergency motion for release, he was given a life-threatening overdose of his medication by prison officials, and later removed from a hospital against his doctors' advice. Kelly, 58, was convicted in 2022 in Chicago of child pornography charges, accused of making videos of himself sexually abusing three teenage girls, including his 14-year-old goddaughter. Meantime, a federal jury in New York convicted Kelly of racketeering and sex trafficking charges in 2021, finding him guilty of running a criminal enterprise to sexually exploit young women and children. Federal appeals courts have upheld both convictions. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison in the New York case, and most of his 20-year sentence in the Chicago case is running concurrently to that prison term. The singer is serving his prison sentence at a medium-security federal correctional center in Butner, North Carolina, and is expected to be released on Dec. 21, 2045, when he would be nearly 79 years old.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
R. Kelly Seeks Prison Release and Asks for House Arrest After Inmate Alleges Officials Asked Him to Kill Singer
An attorney for R. Kelly is asking that the singer be released from federal custody to home detention, alleging that his life is at risk The emergency motion filed with the court includes a declaration from fellow inmate Mikeal Stein, who alleged three prison officials instructed him to kill the disgraced musician Kelly is currently serving a 30-year sentence after being convicted of federal racketeering and sex traffickingAn attorney for R. Kelly is alleging that the singer's life is in danger and asking that he be removed from federal custody and placed on home detention. An emergency motion for temporary furlough filed in federal court on Tuesday, June 10, and obtained by PEOPLE alleges that three officials with the Bureau of Prisons devised a plot to have Kelly killed by a fellow inmate. The filing also includes a declaration from that inmate, Mikeal Glenn Stine, who alleges that he was asked to carry out this plot by three high-ranking individuals from the BOP while incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary Tucson in Arizona. In the declaration, Stine claims to be a longtime member of the Aryan Brotherhood and alleges he even held the title of commissioner at one point, which gave him the "power to order beatings, stabbings, and executions that were carried out by other members of the A.B." He goes on to allege that it was a BOP official who had previously "directed [Stine] to order assaults, beatings, and killings of inmates" who approached him about ending Kelly's life. Stine claims that he was then transferred across the country to the Federal Correctional Institute Butner in North Carolina — the same facility where Kelly is serving his sentence — and eventually placed in the same unit as the singer. Once Stine completed his assignment, he alleges officials said he would be allowed to escape from custody and live his final months as a "free man," an offer that he found appealing because he claims to have been diagnosed with terminal cancer at the time. Stine alleges in the filing that an official also approached him shortly after he arrived at FCI Butner and said: "You need to do what you came here for." He says that after surveilling Kelly for weeks, he had a sudden change of heart and decided to inform the singer about the purported plot and how officials had allegedly tasked him with carrying out the execution. Stine then claims in the filing that he will undergo a polygraph examination to establish that he is being truthful and also reveal the names of inmates whose beatings and killings he has participated in over the years. He is no stranger to legal actions, having filed well over 100 civil suits and petitions in federal court over the past two decades. Stine was also convicted of threatening to assault and murder a federal magistrate judge and an assistant United States attorney back in 2015 for letters he sent from his prison cell. Kelly's lawyer writes that, regardless of Stine's past, in light of his claim, "drastic relief is warranted" to protect the singer's life, saying: "Mr. Kelly's continued incarceration while he knows his life is in jeopardy constitutes cruel and unusual punishment." Stine also received a transfer from Arizona to North Carolina, as he claims in his declaration, according to BOP attorney, Beau Brindley, tells PEOPLE that his client has been attacked in the past, and that his fears of a future incident are only heightened by his belief that officials inside the prison might not adequately, or outright refuse to, protect the singer. "He is not safe in federal custody," Brindley says. "And to keep him in prison while he is under threat like this is cruel and unusual punishment." Kelly is currently serving a 30-year sentence after being convicted of multiple charges of racketeering predicated on criminal conduct in the Eastern District of New York. That conduct included the sexual exploitation of children, forced labor and violations of the Mann Act involving the coercion and transportation of women and girls in interstate commerce to engage in illegal sexual activity A representative for the Bureau of Prisons did not respond to a request for comment. Read the original article on People
RNZ News
05-06-2025
- Business
- RNZ News
Southland woman sentenced to home detention after failing to pay income tax
Debra Lee Monteith was sentenced to 11 months home detention on a single charge of aiding and abetting her company at the Invercargill District Court earlier this week. Photo: RNZ / Ian Telfer A Southland woman whose business received more than $780,000 in Covid support money has been sentenced to home detention after failing to pay income tax. Debra Lee Monteith was charged after her company stopped paying PAYE over a nearly three year period with more than $800,000 unaccounted for. Her company, Lee 19, catered for the Ministry of Education's school lunch programme and at a local meat processing plant. She was registered as an employer in 2019, but in the following year, several employees alerted Inland Revenue about unpaid KiwiSaver deductions. She did not file PAYE returns until 2020 when seven PAYE periods were returned at the same time to a tune of close to $83,000. They were immediately due but Monteith entered an instalment arrangement to pay the debt. It was cancelled due to missed payments in 2022. The company stopped paying PAYE between March 2021 and February 2024 - a month before Lee 19 was placed into liquidation. Monteith said the money was used to keep her company afloat and cover food costs. Inland Revenue said her company was receiving significant taxpayer support while failing to meet its own tax obligations. While she was not taking a salary, she benefited by more than $300,000 between 2020 and 2024. "Her personal expenses were paid out of the company's finances and her groceries were taken from the company's pantry," a spokesperson said. Monteith was sentenced to 11 months home detention on a single charge of aiding and abetting her company at the Invercargill District Court earlier this week. She was made bankrupt in 2013 and had run four other companies since the 1980s. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
CBS News
04-06-2025
- General
- CBS News
Maryland suspends home detention agency's license after teen charged with murder in double shooting
Maryland has revoked the operational license of a home detention monitoring company that officials say failed to notify authorities about violations, leading to a lapse in public safety, according to a letter from the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. According to a letter from Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Carolyn J. Scruggs, the state has ordered Advantage Sentencing Alternative Programs, Inc. (ASAP) to return its license to the Maryland Commission on Correctional Standards, cease monitoring Marylanders, and provide personal information for those under its supervision. The letter says that ASAP has 30 days to submit a written request for a hearing challenging the actions proposed Tuesday. Teen charged in deadly double shooting near Columbia Mall The suspension comes after the arrest of 18-year-old Emmetson Zeah, who was charged with first-degree murder in a shooting that killed two teens, a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old. The shooting happened outside the Columbia Mall on Feb. 22. Zeah was denied bail, and Howard County District Court Judge Allison Sayers said there was clear evidence that he was a danger to the public. Prior to the deadly shooting, Zeah was out on bail for attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault charges related to a home invasion and attempted stabbing case from November 2024, according to court documents. What is ASAP Inc. accused of? The letter accuses ASAP of failing to notify the state about Zeah's violations in a timely manner, jeopardizing public safety. According to Maryland law, home detention monitoring agencies must notify the Division of Parole and Probation of any violations by offenders, with a $1,000 fine for the first day the agency does not provide notice, and $250 for each subsequent day. ASAP was ordered to pay $1,000 for not alerting officials about Zeah on Feb. 13, and $250 for each of the six days after that, according to the letter. A total of 232 individuals were under supervision with ASAP's ankle monitors, and 883 were on private home detention monitoring at the end of April, a spokesperson for the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said.
